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Overview

  • 4 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, German, Latin
  • 53, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • R&D Consultant
  • Cultural Anthropologist (unschooled as a child, & I h...
  • From Austin, Texas
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Exploring progressive synergy through community orientation & social responsibility.

ABOUT ME

"I don't need myself remembered; but what I help create and leave behind is important to me!" ...a favorite quote, echoing the sentiments that I expressed in my lj post called, _ancestral tribute_

PHILOSOPHY

Pleasure Creation & Harm Reduction!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I enjoy devoting myself to improving the hearts, minds & environments that I come in contact with...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Valera, Rosanne, & Doug have told me delightful stories of their travels...

Interests

aesthetics, allegory, altered states, androgyny, ankoku butoh, anthropology, archetypes, austin, bellydancing, bisexuality, bliss, body paint, bondage, bucky fuller, camping, chanting, chaos magick, civil liberties, community, comparative spirituality, compassion, compersion, conscience, consciousness, conversations, cooking, cooperative living, cosmology, creative mythology, creativity, dancing, decision theory, devotion, dreamtime, drumming, détournement, ecstasy, empathy, enlightenment, entheogens, esoterica, ethnomusicology, eurhythmy, evolutionary psychology, fetish, franz kafka, free inquiry, freedom, game theory, games, gender, geomancy, glorantha, gnosis, gnosticism, guerilla ontology, hermetic gnosticism, history, hypnosis, i ching, icehouse games, ifa, imagination, indigenous cultures, information theory, initiation, integrity, intellectualism, interactive storytelling, intimacy, james joyce, kabbalah, ken wilber, liberty, listening, love, lovecraft, magick, martial arts, massage, meditation, memory, motivation, multiple orgasms, negotiation, neotribalism, networking, neuro-tarot, neurology, nlp, non-violence, novelty, occultism, paradigm shift, peace, perennial philosophy, performance, polyamory, projective identification, propaganda, psychedelics, psychology, psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, raves, reciprocal altruism, ritual, ritual theater, robert anton wilson, role playing games, romanticism, rumi, runequest, sacred sexuality, scarlet woman lodge, science fiction, scientific method, self-actualization, sex magick, sgi, shamanism, shanta, silence, slack, social justice, socratic method, sovereignty, spirituality, storytelling, symbolism, synaptai, synchronicity, synthesis, taoism, tarot, thelema, tolerance, trance, transcendental mysticism, transgender, truth, ubiquitous assimilation, utopia, valis, voudoun, wicca, william shakespeare, world music, yoga, zos kia

  • arts
  • theater
  • performing arts
  • body art
  • diy
  • dancing
  • cooking
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • raves
  • crafts
  • electronics
  • painting
  • music
  • world music
  • camping
  • martial arts
  • anthropology
  • history
  • psychology
  • science

Music, Movies, and Books

I tend towards the esoteric & symbolic...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I helped deliver a baby (with the Lamaze technique)! It was a Gnostic revelatory experience.

Teach, Learn, Share

I enjoy R&D projects... DIY electronics & crafts... interactive improvisation... drumming & dancing... I love games of all kinds... although I do prefer participation in real space to virtual space!

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